[Sca-cooks] true medieval recipes!

[Susan Lin]

I have nigella seeds (you're talking the black seeds that are about the
size and shape of a caraway seed?).
As a matter of fact, my grandmother used to put them on challah for special
occasion and when she passed (40 years ago) my mother found some of them
and gave them to each granddaughter.  I still have some of those!!!  I
taste tested them against new ones and they have not been affected by age.



Shoshanah



On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 8:11 PM, Susan Lord <lordhunt at gmail.com> wrote:

> We have had a bit of discussion of late and last I knew it ended that I
> would like to know specific cases in which I have added or changed
> ingredients from the original manuscript.
>
> Tonight. I was proof reading a blog I am preparing for publication. The
> recipe calls for nigella seeds. Yes, I prepare my blogs as long in advance
> as possible, which leaves my doctors time to operate and for me to be with
> the family when they have time.
>
> I found recipe No. 195 in the 13th century al-Andalus manuscript calls for
> the nigella seeds. I couldn’t find the seeds in the places I frequent but
> did find them for sale on internet. I ordered them.
>
> After a month, I asked the sender where they were. She replied that they
> were on a bus to my home in Santiago, Chile. The bus line is national. Now
> I am wondering if the seeds were coming from the Austral highway, which is
> dirt, or Patagonia in the deep south of Chile as Amazon USA gets their
> packages to me faster than that. Finally, the lady gave me the correct
> shipping number after a couple of tries. I called the bus company and they
> said the package had just arrived. Oh I replied, - then I will stay home
> all day waiting for it, no? No, she replied, but tomorrow it will be
> delivered.
>
> The next day a young boy appeared with an envelope half the size of a
> legal sheet of paper and charged me for the shipping. I felt that that was
> overdoing it as my shipping fees are included in all other internet orders.
> Anyway, the return address was a town in Valparaiso, 1 1/2 hours from my
> home! Had we known, we could have picked it up when vacationing in the area
> during the September holidays.
>
> Anyway, I open the package. It contained the normal little seed envelope.
> I opened that and it had the tiniest of plastic bags in which there was 1/4
> tsp of seeds - all that for a total of USD$7.50.
>
> Anyway, now I can make the recipe. Nope, I forgot the chard. Dashed out
> for that. Then, finally, I made the recipe as directed and then posted it
> with my photos and the original recipe scanned as usual.  Hold your breath.
> . .
>
> The original recipe does not call for nigella seeds but Perry’s
> translation does. . .
>
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